New Tai Lue script, also known as Simplified Tai Lue, is an alphabet

Alphabet

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 used to write the Tai Lü language

Tai Lü language

Tai Lü is a language spoken by about 670,000 people in South East Asia. This includes 250,000 people in China, 200,000 in Burma, 134,000 in Thailand, and 5,000 in Vietnam...

. Developed in China in the 1950s, New Tai Lue is based on the traditional Tai Lue script developed ca. 1200 AD. The government of China

Government of the People's Republic of China

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 promoted the alphabet for use as a replacement for the Old Tai Le script; teaching the script was not mandatory, however, and as a result many are illiterate in the new script. In addition, the countries of Burma, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam still use Old Tai Le.

Unicode

New Tai Lue script was added to the Unicode

Unicode

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Standard in March, 2005 with the release of version 4.1.

The Unicode block for New Tai Lue is U+1980–U+19DF:

External links

• http://www.omniglot.com/writing/tailue.htm
• New Tai Lue font